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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Benson keep the girls-with-bells-for-eyes from her apartment?
2. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels like doing when she hears her husband asking the doctor for the ‘extra stitch’ after she gives birth?
3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the boy she meets in the beginning of the story?
4. Who does the DA dump Henson for?
5. What does Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?
Short Essay Questions
1. How would you describe the relationship between the narrator and Bad in "Mothers"?
2. What was Father Jones’ relationship with the girl who fell from the rooftop?
3. What do we know about the virus that is killing people off in "Inventory"?
4. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?
5. How does Benson learn to protect herself from the girls with bells for eyes?
6. What is the noise Stabler and Benson hear throughout "Especial Heinous"?
7. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with the woman from the art class?
8. What does "the husband stitch" refer to?
9. What special gift does Stabler possess, which travels from person to person like a virus?
10. What does Stabler do to complicate relations with his wife in "Especial Heinous"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an evaluative review of Her Body and Other Parties. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 2
Who is the audience for Her Body and Other Parties? What is the ideal reader for Her Body and Other Parties likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of men in Her Body and Other Parties? How does Machado describe masculinity and the role men play in women’s lives?
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